Tuesday (Sept. 15) was Agatha Christie’s 125^th birthday, which is as good a time as any to trot out TV shows featuring a couple of her more obscure sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford...

2015

Sep

THE LATEST SEASON OF 'LONGMIRE' IS RELEASED FROM ITS NEW NETFLIX HOME By Jonathan Storm

Death comes to Longmire in the first episode of Season 4, but Longmire itself was dead for a time when A&E decided a year ago its large audience was too old and too difficult to sell to advertisers...

2015

Jul

THE DIFFICULTIES OF A SIMPLE LIFE ON 'THE LAST ALASKANS' By Jonathan Storm

Do not bet Heimo Korth your bottom dollar that the sun will come out tomorrow. Where Korth lives, the sun goes down in November and doesn’t come back until January...

2014

Oct

'MR. DYNAMITE' APPEARS TO "PLEASE, PLEASE" By Jonathan Storm

I feel good. I knew that I would when I saw that HBO was coming out with a documentary on James Brown, produced by Mick Jagger. It's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, and its first HBO showing is Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. ET...

2014

May

'LOUIE' RETURNS TO FX - AND I RETURN TO 'LOUIE' By Jonathan Storm

It took Stephen Colbert to help me take another look and fall in love with Louie, FX’s buzzfest of a comedy...

2014

Mar

'GOOD WIFE' SHOCK WAVES CONTINUE TO SPREAD By Jonathan Storm

Cast members and creators from CBS's The Good Wife were in New York Wednesday night, fielding questions and previewing this Sunday's episode. TVWW contributor Jonathan Storm was there, and filed this report...

2014

Jan

GETTING TO KNOW A 'FOLLOWING' FOLLOWER By Jonathan Storm

When Fox's The Following returns Sunday night, so will its killer's leading acolyte, co-star Valorie Curry...

2014

Jan

LIFETIME'S 'FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC' BETTER THAN MOVIE VERSION By Jonathan Storm

The first cinematic version of Flowers in the Attic, in 1987, was so bad. The second one, televised Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on Lifetime, is better, thanks to three beautifully cast pros...

2013

Dec

THE ZOMBIES IN MY DVR By Jonathan Storm

The Walking Dead is not lurching across my TV because too many zombie series are clogging the apparatus. Not shows about zombies, but ones that are zombies -- lying, undead, waiting to rise up at my command...

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Jonathan Storm

Jonathan Storm has watched television since he was 5 years old. He would wake up early, turn on the TV and watch the test patterns as he waited for The Modern Farmer to begin. Eventually, he put all that experience to good use, working as the TV critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 22 years before retiring in 2011. He’s still watching, and writing free-lance for The Inquirer and other outlets.

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